tjpaudio

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by tjpaudio 8y ago
Pretty sure this guy got my mother. I remember her describing exactly this trying to get her computer fixed. I had to explain to her it was a scam, help her replace all her credit cards and wipe her machine to factory since computer was c
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by tjpaudio 8y ago
Their use of the word significantly in this context does not refer to statistical significance. The percentages you are referring too are just basic metrics based on the last years data, not something that was t-tested. The longer time pe
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by tjpaudio 8y ago
This is crazy, people actually believed chatbots were going to catch on? My employer developed chat bots, but only so we could grab the associated PR from a few press releases to ride the hype. We knew no one was going to use them.
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by tjpaudio 8y ago
Simply put, a union just refers to the formation of a formal group of employees for the purpose of collective bargaining. I.e., the workers feel like individually their attempts to negotiate are not working so they get together to discuss
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by tjpaudio 8y ago
I have hypothesized that long-term, crypto currency will be made illegal to some degree eventually for one of two reasons or both: 1. Governments use fiat currency as a lever for it's monetary policy and cool/heat the economy and
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by tjpaudio 8y ago
Smart people would love working with a guy like you.
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
If you are making $36,000 per year, you are not making minimum wage. People that make around this much, their salary doesn't vary drastically like a software engineer's does city to city.
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
City-based salary adjustments are really something only educated professionals get, low-wage earners are screwed in big cities. I think also it will shock you how much every day items are compared to Europe. For one, public transportation
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
You bandage wounds to keep out bacteria, and it is your skin having to fight off less infections that make it heal faster. Consider that Neosporin,aka generic triple antibiotic ointment, does increase the speed of external wound healing.
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
People doing stupid things with shorts and options.
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
Robinhood makes money on it's "gold" service, which is $10/month. For that $10 they float you the cash to immediately reinvest cash after stock sales (rather than waiting 3 days) and they give you $2000 in margin. Real
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
I didn't get paid to say.
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
I've actually modeled email domain as a feature in a regression model of customer spending habits. We were all surprised to find it is a very predictive signal! Of course insurance companies want to use every signal available to them
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
As part of my senior thesis years ago, I did an econometric model/analysis that sought to explain inequality as proxied by difference between mean wages of the bottom 90% of earners vs the top 10%. Times where the amount of estate ta
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
They were not hired to handle their campaign banking, that was a side deal made with a hastily written contract because the founders failed to put time into setting up the necessary accounts. This is the start-up version of going to a chec
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
I find it absolutely amazing that they would let someone else handle the money that represents the life of their business. Hard to feel sorry for them. No doubt the correct thing to do would have been to delay the campaign until the banki
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
Data Scientist at major company here that was pounding nails in construction circa 2005. This to me is no surprise. At the time I was early 20s and needed that job that would be sort of an apprenticeship. The problem was, these jobs just
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
What you're failing to consider is that this 1.67% of revenue is more like 10-15% of their volume, and that in small package scale is everything. That extra volume lets the carrier load more full trucks direct to smaller destinations,
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
A $550m acquisition announced 2 days ago is not news?
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
This is clearly going after services like shapeshift.io. If you are unaware, shapeshift lets you transact between various cryptocurrencies on an exchange. The exchange doesn't hold record of the transactions, so you could legitimatel
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
Consider the scenario where I don't already hold bitcoins, but would use them for a transaction. It is very possible that by the time I obtain them, then go to make a transaction an hour later, that I could lose over 10% due to fluctu
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
Yea but none of those reasons explain the current spike, unless you think a nation is starting to build a bitcoin reserve and keeping quiet about it. That's a pretty out there theory on the spectrum of explanations for the current boo
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Bitcoin Bubble
6 points by tjpaudio 9y ago|14 comments
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by tjpaudio 9y ago
How is the performance on this for very large dictionaries vs. standard python dictionary lookups?
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
This is a bit more low-level than I comprehend. Would some one mind explaining the significance and use of this?
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
The general problem isn't convincing people that housing them would be more cost effective, it's that a large portion of the population is worried about incentivizing people to not work. Whether or not that is a valid concern is
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
I feel like this is going to be an increasingly hard question to answer as more and more cloud providers with interchangeable services become available. It's like buying a car. You will run into someone that has used 2 or 3 different
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
Interestingly, I placed an order on amazon.com and while the order appears when I look at my account, none of the usual automated emails have come. I wonder how deeply this is effecting their retail customers.
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
Ugh tipping culture. Pay should be predictable and not guilted on the customer. If the predictable pay is too low people can try to find better work, but at least tension is removed from the time of transaction.
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by tjpaudio 10y ago
The dataset is private but the general gist is its like 100,000 rows with conversion and revenue data with time and 2 other dimensions. There are some outliers (clearly errors) in the data and strong seasonality differences in some dimensi

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